In article <95039.153616LVM3 at psuvm.psu.edu> Lakshmi Madabusi <LVM3 at psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 15:36:15 EST
>From: Lakshmi Madabusi <LVM3 at psuvm.psu.edu>
>Subject: kits for coupling protein A sepharose to IgG
>I am interested in covalently coupling protein A sepharose to antibodies. Ther
>e are a lot of kits which allow this, but I would like to get a feedback on the
> experience others have had with these kits. Could you please enlighten me on y
>our experience with any of the kits used for this purpose? Thanks for your re
>sponse.
We have used a Pierce kit but substituted Pharmacia Sepharose Protein G, as
our mAbs don't bind to Protein A. The system worked OK. See the paper
Schneider et al, 1982, The J. of Biological Chemistry, v257, n 18, pp 10766,
as many of these kits are based on this paper. See also Harlow and Lane,
Antibodies; A Lab Manual.
Make sure that the antigen preparation you are going to use contains no
antibodies that bind Protein A (or G) as these will bind to unfilled sites.
These columns leak only minimal amounts of antibody.
Richard Shaw Internet: ShawR at agresearch.cri.nz
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